Eagle (song)
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| ABBA | |
| publication | May 1978 |
| length | 5:51 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| text | Bjorn Ulvaeus |
| music | Benny Andersson , B. Ulvaeus |
| Label | Polar Music |
| album | ABBA - The Album |
Eagle is a song by the pop group ABBA from 1977. It was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus . With a playing time of five minutes and 51 seconds, the piece is the longest of all ABBA songs. The lead vocals are sung by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . Eagle was released in May 1978 with the B-side Thank You for the Music as the third and final single from the album ABBA - The Album . It's about the freedom of an eagle.
Emergence
The basic instrumental tracks for Eagle were ready by June 1977. Last overdubs were added in October. In Eagle you can hear Fältskog and Lyngstad singing together, which was rather rare at that time. Working titles were initially High High and The Eagle . Ulvaeus provided the final text and title after reading the novel The Seagull Jonathan and was inspired by it.
"I wanted to capture the feeling of freedom and euphoria that I felt while reading this book"
The single was released in Taiwan in 1977, but with the B-side One Man, One Woman . In April 1978, in addition to the music videos for Thank You for the Music and One Man, One Woman , one for Eagle was also shot.
There is also a so-called "radio version" which is only about four minutes long instead of the original playing time of almost six minutes. It is also known as the "Eagle (Short Version)" and is located in a. on the playlists of ABBA - The Album (Deluxe Edition), The Definitive Collection and The Essential Collection . In addition, this version is predominantly played on the radio.
successes
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Eagle couldn't keep up with the success of the previous single Take a Chance on Me . In the countries in which it was published, it performed only with moderate success. The only European country where the single reached the top of the charts was Belgium . It was also successful in South Africa (2nd place) and Zimbabwe (5th). In the United States and Great Britain, Eagle was not released as a single at all, nor was it in Norway and Sweden.
Cover version
In 1993 the German hard rock band Sargant Fury released a cover version of the song on their album Little Fish . Another hard rock version comes from Rob Rock on the album Rage of Creation from the year 2000. This interpretation has been compared to the song Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath .
Web links
- Eagle / Thank You For The Music (1978) ( Memento from 20090716225732)
- Lyrics on golyr.de
- Music video on YouTube
literature
- Carl Magnus Palm: Light and Shadow. ABBA - The real story. Bosworth Musikverlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86543-100-4 (German translation: Helmut Müller).
- Carl Magnus Palm: Abba. Story and songs compact. Bosworth Music, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86543-227-8 ( compact story and songs ), (German translation: Cecilia Senge).
Individual evidence
- ↑ release date
- ↑ Carl Magnus Palm: Abba - Story and Songs compact, p. 54
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Götz Kühnemund : Rob Rock: Rage of Creation . In: Rock Hard . No. 164 ( rockhard.de [accessed April 7, 2020]).